Michel Calman at Bath, 1950 Edwin Kosarek Ink Drawing slide top snuff box The box measures 2" long

The box measures 2" long x 1

stamped on the back as having been made by Ebenezer Averill Boxworks

This carved and painted wooden mask--an early 20th century Mexican dance mask--feels so contemporary to me

Louis newspaper from 1945

It appears there may have been a repair near the top of the handle long ago

Michel Calman at Bath, 1950 Edwin Kosarek Ink Drawing slide top snuff box The box measures 2" longOne last drawing by Edwin Kosarek several of which I purchased from a dealer who had purchased a good number of them plus a journal kept by Kosarek, which provided a little biographical information. What I know is that he was from New Jersey(b. 1929) but spent a good part of the 1950s in Mexico, after which he briefly attended Cooper Union. He was gay, and estranged from his family, and, it seems increasingly mentally ill, with not much record of him